FEILDING PRICES

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 135, 5 December 1938, Page 11

FEILDING PRICES

•■• MARKET DEPRESSED

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

FEILDING, December 2. There was a depressed market at the Feilding stock sale today, with only moderate offerings.

Hoggets were in principal supply in the mutton section, and for these, together with ewes, values remained at late rates. Wethers were a little easier, on last week's rates, and a very small entry of store sheep attracted little attention, prices being unchanged, but for store cows and yearling heifers there was a fair demand at better values. Run cattle were practically unsaleable at auction, but considerable business was done later by private treaty at prices satisfactory to vendors. Some fairly well-finished beef was on hand, and though competition was not brisk prices were about the same as recent sales. /

Quotations:—

Fat Sheep.—Prime ewes, 14s to 15s 6d; second grade, 10s to 12s 6d; light, 8s 6d to 9s 6d; spring lambs, 19s 6d to 235; prime heavy hoggets, 23s 9d to 25s Id; second quality, 21s to 235; lighter, 17s to 19s sd; unfinished, to 16s 6d; primest singles, to 335; heavy wethers, 20s to 23s IOd; light, 16s 7d to 18s lid. Store Sheep.—Best 2-tooth ewes, 26s to 29s 6d; smaller, 21s 6d to 24s 3d; backward, to 15s 9d; 2-tooth wethers, 15s to 17s.

Store Cattle.—Good yearling Jersey heifers, £4 7s to £5s 3s; smaller, £3 15s to £4 ss; others, £2 4s to £3 ss; boner ewes, heavy, £4 to £4 13s; others, £1 7s 6d to £3 Ms; potter bulls, £1 17s 6d to £4 10s; four empty cows and heifers, £4 17s 6d; empty P.A.. cows, to £5 4s 6d; good yearling P.A. steers, £5 5s to £6 7s 6d; second quality, £4 to £4 18s; coloured yearling steers, £4 to £5 18s 6d; 3-year P.A. steers, good', £9 5s to £9 9s; second grade, £8 10s to £8 15s; 2-year Hereford steers, ,to £2 12s 6d; 2-year P.A. steers, to £7 17s. Fat Cattle.—P.A. heifers, light prime, £8 to £8 15s; others, £7 5s to £7 10s; P.A. cows, light, £6 7s 6d to £6 10s; Jersey cows, £5 12s 6d to £5 15s; light bullocks, to £9; cows and vealers, £4 10s to £5. , .. n . Dairy Cattle.—Springing heifers, -£4 17s 6d to £5 17s 6d; cows in milk, £4 tOp?ultey.-Hens, 2s 7d to 3s sd; pullets, to 2s lid; cockerels, 7d to Is 7d, ducks, 2s to 3s 6d; ducklings, to 7d. Pigs.—Weaners, £1 Is to £1 4s 6d, slips? to £1 12s; stores, £1 17s to £2 Is.